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Architecting applications on Azure

Best practices and patterns for building applications on Microsoft Azure

Design for the cloud

• Principles of a well-designed application
• Best practices in cloud applications
• Responsible engineering
• Application design patterns
• Architect multitenant solutions on Azure
• Build microservices on Azure

Optimize your workload

• Guiding tenets for your architecture
• Examine your workload
• Performance tuning
• Performance antipatterns
• Secure your infrastructure

Choose the right technology

• Choose a compute service
• Choose a Kubernetes at the edge option
• Choose a data store
• Choose a load-balancing service
• Choose a messaging service
• Choose an IoT solution

Essential scenarios

• Architecture for startups
• Azure and Power Platform solutions
• Azure and Microsoft 365 solutions
• AWS services comparison
• Google Cloud services comparison

Technology Areas

Explore architectures and guides for different technologies

Popular Articles

• AKS Production Baseline
• AWS to Azure services comparison
• Google Cloud to Azure services comparison
• Cloud Design Patterns
• CQRS design pattern
• Best practices in cloud applications
• Web API design
• Performance antipatterns for cloud applications
• Choose your Azure compute service
• Application architecture fundamentals
• Hub-spoke network topology
• Architect multitenant solutions on Azure

AI & Machine Learning

• Artificial intelligence (AI) architecture design
• Training of Python scikit-learn models
• Distributed training of deep learning models
• Batch scoring of Python models
• Conversational bot
• Machine learning options
• Machine learning at scale
• Natural language processing
• R developer's guide to Azure
• Movie recommendation
• Cognitive services options
• Team Data Science Process
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Analytics

• Analytics architecture design
• Choose an analytical data store in Azure
• Choose a data analytics technology in Azure
• Analytics end-to-end with Azure Synapse
• Automated enterprise BI with Azure Data Factory
• Stream processing with Azure Databricks
• Databricks Monitoring
• Advanced analytics architecture
• IoT analytics for construction
• Real-time fraud detection
• Mining equipment monitoring
• Predict the length of stay in hospitals

Databases

• Databases architecture design
• Big Data architectures
• Build a scalable system for massive data
• Choose a data store
• Extract, transform, and load (ETL)
• Online analytical processing (OLAP)
• Online transaction processing (OLTP)
• Data warehousing in Microsoft Azure
• Data lakes
• Extend on-premises data solutions to the cloud
• Free-form text search
• Time series solutions
• See more

DevOps

• Checklist
• Advanced Azure Resource Manager Templates
• DevOps with Azure DevOps
• DevOps with containers
• Jenkins server

Enterprise integration

• Basic enterprise integration
• Enterprise BI with SQL Data Warehouse
• Enterprise integration with queues and events

High performance computing (HPC)

• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Computer-aided engineering
• HPC video rendering
• Image Modeling
• Linux virtual desktops
• Introduction to HPC on Azure

Identity

• Identity in multitenant applications
• Choose an Active Directory integration architecture
• Integrate on-premises AD with Azure AD
• Extend AD DS to Azure
• Create an AD DS forest in Azure
• Extend AD FS to Azure

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Internet of Things (IoT) architecture
• Automotive IoT data
• Telehealth System

Microservices

• Domain analysis
• Tactical DDD
• Identify microservice boundaries
• Design a microservices architecture
• Monitor microservices in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• CI/CD for microservices
• CI/CD for microservices on Kubernetes
• Migrate from Cloud Services to Service Fabric
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Service Fabric
• Decomposing a monolithic application
• Introduction to microservices on Azure

Networking

• Choose a hybrid network architecture
• ExpressRoute
• ExpressRoute with VPN failover
• Troubleshoot a hybrid VPN connection
• Hub-spoke topology
• DMZ between Azure and on-premises
• DMZ between Azure and the Internet
• Highly available network virtual appliances
• Segmenting Virtual Networks

Serverless applications

• Code walkthrough
• Serverless event processing
• Serverless web application
• Introduction to Serverless Applications on Azure

VM workloads

• Linux VM deployment
• Windows VM deployment
• N-tier application with Cassandra (Linux)
• N-tier application with SQL Server (Windows)
• Multi-region N-tier application
• Highly scalable WordPress
• Multi-tier Windows

SAP

• Overview
• SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)
• SAP HANA Scale-up on Linux
• SAP NetWeaver on Windows on Azure
• SAP S/4HANA in Linux on Azure
• SAP BW/4HANA in Linux on Azure
• SAP NetWeaver on SQL Server
• SAP deployment using an Oracle DB
• Dev/test for SAP

Web apps

• Basic web application
• Improved scalability
• Multi-region deployment
• Web application monitoring
• E-commerce API management
• E-commerce front-end
• E-commerce product search
• Publishing internal APIs externally
• Securely managed web application
• Highly available web application

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